ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how climate change is framed and embedded in both discourse and action, and discusses how it can leverage innovations across different policy, social and technical domains. It highlights institutional and political flow-on effects, such as how the broader policy context at the local scale influences the identification, formulation and given priority of climate change action and partially determines the inclusion or exclusion of climate change considerations in policy agendas. The chapter highlights the opportunities and challenges of network governance and capacity building by deepening the understanding of the challenges involved in 'doing' collaboration through informal/formal governance processes focusing on climate change planning and mainstreaming into local government practices. Local governments and other actors operating at the local scale increasingly invest effort and resources in devising localised climate change responses that fit with the broader climate governance and political context.
